Real Encrypted partition with Rohos Mini

This time we would like to present the next version of Rohos Disk Browser with ‘Encrypted Partition’ feature. It makes 2 partitions on any USB flash drive: one is open while another one is hidden and encrypted. As this feature works with USB drive storage directly it requires Administration rights.

The security benefits are:

Takes-off the limitation of 2 GB encrypted size on FAT32. Now unlimited encryption capacity on regular USB flash drives with FAT32. As an advantage you don’t need to loose your USB stick compatibility by formatting it to NTFS.

The open part of USB flash drive remains untouched while secret and encrypted part stored directly on USB drive memory.

You may erase any file and format entire Drive without damaging encrypted part.

More privacy and security – there is no more big container file that is very vulnerable. The fact that you have this big file on your drive tells about you have some secret files inside. It can be deleted by someone else. It can be damaged because of File-System error or hardware failure that leads to entire secret volume loss in most cases.

Partitioned drive is compatible with Linux and Mac. Open partition can be formatted many times without secret data loss.

Encrypted Partition vs Vault-Container file.

Rohos Disk Browser now allows creating 2 types of Encrypted Volumes.

1) In a classical way by creating big container-file with encrypted volume data. By using Rohos Mini or Rohos Disk tools you can mount this file as a virtual disk drive.

You can create and use this volume with Rohos Disk Browser on any PC even under restricted user account (without having Admin rights). But there are limitations on volume size depending on File-System type of USB drive. For FAT32 it is 2GB limit (maximum size of vault-container file). In addition there maybe problems with a data integrity of vault-container file.

2) By partitioning USB flash drive into a single Open partition + hidden encrypted partition.

There are no limitations on volume size and a few more benefits: better privacy and data integrity. But it requires Administration rights as this feature works with USB drive storage directly.